Fainting with pregnancy

Every woman with children is familiar with such symptoms, Like dizziness, nausea, darkening in the eyes, fainting during pregnancy. Especially these ailments are affected by emotional, skinny, having other diseases in the anamnesis. The emerging state is extremely dangerous for the health of a woman and her baby. It is important to understand the circumstances that can lead to such symptoms, as well as in the methods of their prevention.

Fainting in pregnancy( syncope) is a condition characterized by a sudden loss of consciousness of a pregnant woman due to a sharp decrease in blood pressure and hypoxia of the brain. As is known, nervous tissue is sensitive to a lack of oxygen. Any disorder of cerebral circulation causes a sensation of faintness, headache and fainting.

Causes of unconsciousness in pregnant women

Why do pregnant women faint? To answer this question, you need to plunge a bit into the peculiarities of the lady's organism in an "interesting position".Bearing a baby is a special condition, and therefore all organs and systems work in a different mode.

Physiology in pregnant women

After the implantation of a fertilized egg into the uterus, the placenta begins to develop, the third cycle of circulation appears. The hormonal background changes due to a significant increase in the level of progesterone( the "pregnancy hormone"), which affects the work of internal organs.

This hormone relaxes the smooth muscles of the vessels, thereby reducing blood pressure, reduces the tone of the uterus, protecting it from premature contractions. Particularly pronounced effect of progesterone in the first trimester, when the body is just beginning to adapt to the emergence of a new life. This explains the frequency of the spread of toxicosis and syncope in the early stages of pregnancy( up to 12-14 weeks).

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In the second and third trimesters, other factors influence the cause of unconsciousness:

• a growing pregnant uterus squeezes the abdominal vessels( inferior vena cava);
• lack of glucose( large breaks between meals);
• high level of carbon dioxide in the room( hypoxia of the brain);
• increased cardiac output and heart rate( physiological changes in pregnancy occurring in the 2nd trimester and manifested by syncope);
• physical activity, climbing the stairs can provoke a syncope;
• sharp getting up from the bed in the morning( orthostatic hypotension in pregnant women is more pronounced);
• anemia( low blood hemoglobin is found in most women bearing a baby);
• long standing( blood is deposited in the veins of the lower limbs, the brain suffers from a lack of oxygen).

All of these causes cause a violation of the blood supply to the brain, a decrease in the consumption of oxygen by the neurons, glucose, and as a result - a syncope.

Multiple sclerosis( MS) and pregnancy

MS is a progressive autoimmune disease in which small sclerotic foci appear in the nervous tissue of the brain and spinal cord, leading to a disruption in the functions of many organs. Multiple sclerosis in pregnant women, according to some studies, slows down its development. This can be explained by the inhibition of the activity of the immune system in pregnant women. Women feel better almost the entire period of bearing the fetus.

After the birth of the child the condition worsens, there are exacerbations of multiple sclerosis, as the hormonal background comes into balance, the work of immunity normalizes. As for the course of the pregnancy itself, this will depend on the initial state of the woman( stage, the severity of the symptoms of multiple sclerosis).

Important! The incidence of toxicosis, syncope, gestosis and other pathologies in MS is the same as in healthy women.

Before planning pregnancy, you need to undergo a course of therapy in order to avoid the aggravation of multiple sclerosis, the appearance of symptoms of the disease, its negative consequences for the baby. What does a woman do if a child feels sick due to an exacerbation of multiple sclerosis? Do not panic and engage in self-medication, you need to immediately turn to a neurologist, go through the necessary examination. A competent doctor will prescribe a treatment that will reduce unpleasant symptoms, and also will not harm the fetus.

Symptoms of syncope

A more common term is a pre-occlusive condition. This is a whole symptom complex of symptoms that appear immediately before a syncope. A woman can feel slight weakness, dizziness, drowsiness, inhibition. Her appearance is confused, her face is pale.

As hypoxia increases, nausea, darkening before the eyes, cold sweat, palpitation, trembling. If you do not help a woman, she can lose consciousness and fall.

First-aid first aid

So, it was clarified why women during pregnancy faint. What do you need to do to others, how to help? The main thing that the pregnant woman should try to avoid is loss of consciousness. At the very first signs of an approaching syncope,

• should sit or lie down on the left side as soon as possible( this will ensure blood flow to the brain and prevent further development of oxygen starvation);
• ensure the supply of fresh air, if possible;
• eat something sweet( sweet, sweet tea);
• with fainting fainting helps the inhalation of ammonia( with help from an outsider).

Consequences of syncope in pregnant women

First of all, the danger of unconsciousness lies in the possibility of injury for the woman herself. When falling more often, the head and limbs suffer. Sometimes there are concussions of the brain, fractures of hands, feet, various bruises. It is very dangerous to fall from a height or on the street, where there are many vehicles. In addition, with fainting during pregnancy, the baby suffers.

Not only bruises and bruises need to be scared. Disturbance of blood circulation and oxygen starvation, albeit temporary, greatly affects the development of the fetus. The sad consequences may be miscarriages at an early age, pregnancy fading, premature birth, fetoplacental insufficiency.

Treatment and prevention

Single cases of syncope during pregnancy do not require any treatment. This is a normal physiological condition. A woman will have enough to eat well, sleep, walk in the fresh air( especially before going to bed), take vitamins and regularly visit a women's consultation.

Frequent loss of consciousness, combined with poor health, low blood pressure, anemia, must be treated. Together with a full rest, an individual therapy scheme is selected depending on the cause of fainting. Apply iron preparations for the normalization of hemoglobin of the blood, complex additives and minerals for pregnant women, vascular and metabolic drugs injectively. You may need treatment in a hospital.

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There are special sanatoriums for pregnant women, where treatment is carried out with a comprehensive impact on the body:

• pressure chambers, oxygen cocktails;
• massage of the cervical-collar zone;
• aromatherapy;
• visit the pool and pearl baths;
• physiotherapy according to indications;
• exercise therapy.

In conclusion, it is worthwhile to give advice to all future mothers: if the doctor considers it necessary to send a pregnant woman for treatment, then in no case should not be abandoned. Life and health of a little man in your hands!